Publications by authors named "Ayoub B"

Introduction And Importance: Tuberculous aortic aneurysms require rigorous medical and surgical management due to the various complications that pose a significant life risk, with recurrence being one of the most formidable postoperative complications. This recurrence is linked to significant hemorrhage and infection, subsequently increasing the risk of mortality. Aneurysmal involvement due to tuberculosis is documented and can affect all arteries, but localization in the common iliac artery is rare and serious, necessitating immediate management.

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Background: Healthcare delivery and excellent health outcomes for teenagers depend on the establishment of effective communication between family physicians and adolescent patients. However, communicating with adolescents can be challenging due to their stage of development and unique needs. By implementing effective communication strategies and fostering a positive environment, family doctors can build trust, enhance patient participation and ultimately improve health outcomes for their adolescent patients.

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  • Prolonged strenuous exercise can temporarily impair cardiac function and lead to pulmonary issues like bronchoconstriction, dynamic hyperinflation, and reduced gas exchange capacity.
  • The study assessed 60 male triathletes before and after a long-distance race to compare cardiac function in those with and without exercise-induced pulmonary dysfunctions.
  • Post-race findings showed declines in both systolic and diastolic functions across all groups, but those with diffusion impairment had more significant decreases in cardiac work and specific heart metrics.
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First described by Virchow in the 19th century, intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are complex, tangle-shaped vascular lesions with a number of associated neuroparenchymal, hemodynamic, and angio-architectural changes. However, the clinical description of extracranial AVMs dates back to the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1500 BC), with a still unknown definitive underlying etiology thus far.

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Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of simplified post-processing approaches for quantitative wrist 4D-CT in the assessment of scapholunate instability (SLI).

Methods: A prospective monocentric case-control study included 60 patients with suspected post-traumatic scapholunate ligament (SLL) tears and persistent pain. Of these, 40 patients exhibited SLL tears, subdivided into two groups of 20 each: one group with completely torn ligaments and the other with partially torn ligaments.

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Due to their susceptibility to degradation, vitamin levels in food formulations may differ from those found in the finished product. Vitamin levels can be impacted by processing and storage. In this work, the ingredients of Strong B50 ® film-coated tablets were estimated simultaneously using simple efficient stability indicating HPLC method.

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Aim Of The Study: Biliary atresia (BA) is an important cause of surgical jaundice. Although the precise etiology is unknown, β-amyloid (Aβ) has been observed around the bile ducts in BA livers. It is unclear whether Aβ plays a role in the pathogenesis of this disease.

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Land use and land cover are critical factors that influence the environment and human societies. The dynamics of LULC have been constantly changing over the years, and these changes can be analyzed at different spatial and temporal scales to evaluate their impact on the natural environment. This study employs multitemporal satellite data to investigate the spatial and temporal transformations that occurred in Sidi Bel Abbes province, situated in the northwestern region of Algeria, spanning from the early 1990s to 2020.

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Objectives: In this systematic review, we aimed to identify the full extent of cost-effectiveness evidence available for evaluating alternative Maternity Models of Care (MMC) and to summarize findings narratively.

Methods: Articles that included a decision tree or state-based (Markov) model to explore the cost-effectiveness of an MMC, and at least one comparator MMC, were identified from a systematic literature review. The MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL and Google Scholar databases were searched for papers published in English, Arabic, and French.

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Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is a common sleep-breathing disorder associated with adverse health outcomes including excessive daytime sleepiness, impaired quality of life and is well-established as a cardiovascular risk factor. Continuous positive airway pressure is the reference treatment, but its cardiovascular and metabolic benefits are still debated. Combined interventions aiming at improving patient's lifestyle behaviours are recommended in guidelines management of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome but adherence decreases over time and access to rehabilitation programmes is limited.

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Introduction: Autoantibody testing has contributed to both biological and clinical insights in managing patients with liver disease. These autoantibodies often have clinical value for the diagnosis, disease activity and/or prognosis.

Aim Of The Study: We aimed to investigate the potential application of auto-antibodies in different etiologies of non-autoimmune liver diseases.

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Gliflozins are successfully marketed antidiabetic agents with a reported neuroprotective effect, and this study tests their blood-brain barrier crossing ability. Henceforward, a computational hypothesis interpreting their effects was reasonable after failure to cross into the brain. A chromatographic bioassay for canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin was developed, validated, and applied to the rat's and rat's plasma and brain.

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Objective: Pain and distress are common in children undergoing medical procedures, exposing them to acute and chronic biopsychosocial impairments if inadequately treated. Clinical hypnosis has emerged as a potentially beneficial treatment for children's procedural pain and distress due to evidence of effectiveness and potential superiority to other psychological interventions. However, systematic reviews of clinical hypnosis for children's procedural pain and distress have been predominantly conducted in children undergoing oncology and needle procedures and are lacking in broader pediatric contexts.

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Background: Burn injuries are a leading cause of morbidity that can result in devastating disability and poor quality of life for survivors. This systematic review aimed to synthesise evidence regarding the effect of 20 minutes of cool running water (CRW) within three hours of injury on outcomes of patients with thermal burn injuries.

Methods: This systematic review was conducted in reference to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

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The current study aimed to explore the potential neuroprotective effect of omarigliptin (OG), an antidiabetic drug that crosses the blood-brain barrier (BBB), in a Parkinson's disease (PD) rotenone-based rat-model. Results showed that OG attenuated motor impairment, histological aberrations, α-synuclein accumulation, and rescued the dopaminergic neurons in rotenone-administered rats. Furthermore, OG halted rotenone-induced oxidative stress; as shown by reduced lipid peroxidation, decline in the oxidative stress sensor (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2) and its downstream heme oxygenase-1.

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Trelagliptin (TLN) is a novel once-weekly antidiabetic drug that enhanced the patient compliance in type 2 diabetes. TLN analysis and bioanalysis literature review showed many methods for TLN assay either in dosage form or as biological fluids (pharmacokinetic parameters), but all those methods did not consider the full details dealing with biological assay of TLN. Studies that included information about pharmacokinetic parameters did not mention the used analytical procedures for those determinations and parameters.

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Background: Obesity is a major public health issue. Combining exercise training, nutrition, and therapeutic education in metabolic rehabilitation (MR) is recommended for obesity management. However, evidence from randomized controlled studies is lacking.

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Among the comorbidities associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), skeletal muscle weakness and atrophy are known to affect patient survival rate. In addition to muscle deconditioning, various systemic and intrinsic factors have been implicated in COPD muscle dysfunction but an impaired COPD muscle adaptation to contraction has never been extensively studied. We submitted cultured myotubes from nine healthy subjects and nine patients with COPD to an endurance-type protocol of electrical pulse stimulation (EPS).

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Sleep disturbances are frequent among patients with heart failure (HF). We hypothesized that self-reported sleep disturbances are associated with a poor prognosis in patients with HF. A longitudinal study of 119 patients with HF was carried out to assess the association between sleep disturbances and the occurrence of major cardiovascular events (MACE).

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Background And Objectives: Age and comorbidity-related sarcopenia represent a main cause of muscle dysfunction in patients on long-term hemodialysis. However, recent findings suggest muscle abnormalities that are not associated with sarcopenia. The aim of this study was to isolate functional and cellular muscle abnormalities independently of other major confounding factors, including malnutrition, age, comorbidity, or sedentary lifestyle, which are common in patients on maintenance hemodialysis.

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Lynch syndrome is the most common form of hereditary colorectal cancer and is associated with an increased incidence of endometrial cancer, small bowel cancer, and other malignancies. The advent of immune checkpoint blockade, next-generation sequencing, and precision medicine molecular tumor boards have revolutionized the current treatment landscape for many cancers and allowed for more creative approaches to treating patients. In addition, tissue agnostic approvals have also served as valid treatment options for patients with otherwise untreatable cancers.

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A simple, economic, green, and sensitive bioanalytical method for empagliflozin bioassay in rats' plasma was employed successfully owing to the empagliflozin native fluorescence behavior. Enhanced liquid-liquid extraction, using diethyl ether (DEE), was successfully employed for the improved extraction of empagliflozin from rats' plasma based on its high value of logP as 1.8 that boosted the drug migration from plasma to the organic layer.

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The authors in the current work suggested the potential repurposing of omarigliptin (OMR) for neurodegenerative diseases based on three new findings that support the preliminary finding of crossing BBB after a single dose study in the literature. The first finding is the positive results of the docking study with the crystal structures of A adenosine (A2AAR) and acetylcholine esterase (AChE) receptors. A2AAR is a member of non-dopaminergic GPCR superfamily receptor proteins and has essential role in regulation of glutamate and dopamine release in Parkinson's disease while AChE plays a major role in Alzheimer's disease as the primary enzyme responsible for the hydrolytic metabolism of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetate.

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Advanced and sensitive spectrophotometric and chemometric analytical methods were successfully established for the stability-indicating assay of cromolyn sodium (CS) and its alkaline degradation products (Deg1 and Deg2). Spectrophotometric mean centering ratio spectra method (MCR) and chemometric methods, including principal component regression (PCR) and partial least square (PLS-2) methods, were applied. Peak amplitudes after MCR at 367.

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